Performing Ensembles

Concert Choir

Open to all NIACC Students, the Concert Choir gives at least one major performance each semester including the annual Winter Concert in the fall and Quodlibet each spring.

NIACC Singers

This show choir, consisting of 30 singers and 5 instrumentalists, performs locally several times each year and goes on a major tour every other year to such locations as Orlando, Florida and Oahu, Hawaii. Membership in the NIACC Singers is by audition only.

North Iowa Concert Band

The concert band rehearses one night each week in preparation for at least one major performance each semester. This ensemble is open to all NIACC students and community members in the North Iowa area. School instruments are available for students not owning their own instruments.

North Iowa Symphony Orchestra

Like the concert band, the orchestra involves NIACC students and community members from the North Iowa area. This group generally performs 3 times a year, with one concert being for the children of the area elementary schools. Membership in NISO is by audition.

NIACC Jazz Ensemble

This group concentrates on improvisation, swing interpretation, and jazz repertoire from 1930 to the present in rehearsals twice each week. Presenting one or two major concerts each year, as well as hosting the NIACC Jazz Festival, membership in the NIACC Jazz Ensemble is also by audition.

North Iowa Choral Society

Charter Membership of the North Iowa Choral Society (NICS) was selected from over 100 singers who auditioned from April - August of 1994. Rehearsals then began in September, with 32 vocalists presenting the premiere performance on May 4, 1995. More voices were added each year until the group numbered 44 voices for the spring concert in 2004. Robert A. Davis, founding director, retired in 2001, at which time Jayson Ryner assumed the director's position. In addition to presenting an annual concert each spring and singing at various churches, NICS is available for other engagements. The group has performed at the Iowa Choral Directors' Summer Convention, the Choral Symposium, the Christmas KCMR Live concert, and the "Miss Shirley Jones Christmas Show" on November 30, 2002.

For further information about auditioning for membership in the NICS, contact Jayson Ryner by E-mail (rynerjay@niacc.edu) or by phone (641-749-5830).

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